Voices for International Business and Education
Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Thursday December 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM
Location
Community Room
Voices for International Business and Education COMMUNITY ROOM 727 CARONDELET ST. NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130
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Committee Members Present
A. Anderson, C. Allen, L. Hughes, M. Roney (remote), S. Thomas, S. Wilson
Committee Members Absent
S. Retzlaff
Guests Present
H. Blumenthal, Karen Dwyer
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance and Guests
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
H. Blumenthal called a meeting of the Executive Committee of Voices for International Business and Education to order on Thursday Dec 10, 2015 at 5:41 PM.
C.
READ MISSION STATEMENT AND SCHOOL VISION
D.
Approve Minites of 11/10/15
C. Allen made a motion to approve minutes from the Executive Committee Meeting on 11-10-15 Executive Committee Meeting on 11-10-15.
L. Hughes seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
II. Executive
A.
Report on Facility Committee Meeting of 12/1/15
B.
DISCUSSION OF LAST MEETING'S CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS
Discussion revolved ways that IHSNO could expand in the '17-2018 SY:
Administration will present a Pro/Con of all 8 options. No date was given for presentation.
- Take in 40 students
- Add 8th grade
- Open another high school in the city
- Open a K-8th grade
- Having a school that was 8th - 9th grade and another school that was 10th - 12th grades
- Opening a Pre-K thru 12th grade
- Open a middle school with grades 6th - 8th grade (This model will support the IB's Middle Year Program that the Strategic Plan speaks to; all 9th and 10th-grade teachers will be trained in MYP by Fall of 2017)
- Become a outsource and/or resources and offer other languages to other schools (NOCCA model)
Administration will present a Pro/Con of all 8 options. No date was given for presentation.
C.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD , IF ANY
III. Other Business
A.
DECIDE DATE OF NEXT MEETING
Board Executive Meetings to be moved to 6pm. Next meeting will be January 13th.
IV. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
C. Allen made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
L. Hughes seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED unanimously to approve the motion.
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:34 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. Anderson
Administration ( Facility Director and Head of School) will compile a list of what is needed in the building should IHSNO stay in the current building.
RSD did a review of building and there were come critical items that needed to be address. Director of Facilities, Tim McGregor and his team have addressed and completed 75% of the critical items.